Training from the Back of the Room (TBR)

Training from the Back of The Room (TBR)

Training from the BACK of the Room (TBR) is a Brain-based Facilitation approach for coaches, trainers, and facilitators who want every session to deliver lasting value without boring slides, overwhelming prep, or losing audience engagement.

Why it matters:

Engaging → participants are active, not passive
Sticky → learning is remembered and applied long after the session
Value-driven → ensures training investments deliver real impact, not wasted time or forgotten slides

In just two days, you'll learn; The 6 Brain Science principles that make learning stick, A ready-to-use Facilitation Toolbox of engaging techniques and a 4 C's Instructional Design formula to map out high impact sessions step by step.

As a certified TBR Trainer, I don't just teach content - I help you become a confident facilitator who can design and deliver engaging, brain friendly sessions that truly stick.

(photo by Kate Hollingsworth)

How we make the training stick - using Training from the back of the room techniques to train the course itself

Connection to the course

Prime your brain before the course with a short pre-read. On the day, connect to your own experiences in training and facilitation, and set a clear personal intention for the 2 days ahead.

Concepts

Discover the 6 brain science principles that make learning stick, and explore a toolkit of proven engagement techniques — all structured through the 4Cs instructional design model.

Concrete Practice

Practise each tool in real-time, and build your own 4Cs Map for a real training session you plan to deliver - so you leave with a ready-to-use design.

Conclusion

Celebrate your success with Practitioner Certification and gain lifetime access to the global Training from the Back of the Room community on Slack for ongoing support and growth.

Follow-Up

Reconnect with your cohort in a live group call to share how you’ve applied TBR in your work and learn from others’ successes and adaptations.

Intro to TBR Workshops

Want a taster session to get an introduction to Training from the back of the room?

Curious and not quite ready to commit to the full two-day Practitioner course?

This 90-minute interactive workshops is the perfect introduction.

You’ll experience the six brain science principles of TBR in action and discover how simple shifts can transform any session — from passive delivery to energised, learner-led collaboration.
The session flexes to your needs and your context.

Through hands-on activities, you’ll practice each of the 6 principles and leave with a reusable template of tools you can immediately apply to your own workshops, retrospectives, training or meetings.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Experience six brain-based principles for facilitation and reflect on how they create engaging, inclusive and memorable group sessions
Discover simple tools to boost energy, focus and psychological safety
Walk away with a practical, reusable template of six ready-to-use tools to embed into your facilitation

• Online - In-Person - Private - Public (suitable to your context)
• Sign up to one of the public online workshops

• Not a suitable date available - join the waiting list

• Enquire to bring this workshop in-house

Bring TBR into your organisation

I run private, in-house Training from the Back of the Room (TBR) practitioner courses tailored to your teams, roles, and context. Ideal for organisations investing in facilitation skills, internal coaching, or Agile capability building.

Unlike traditional training, TBR is a train-the-trainer programme giving participants the tools and confidence to design and deliver their own engaging workshops or training sessions. That means your people don’t just attend training; they leave ready to run sessions that make learning stick, creating lasting value from your investment.

I'll turn your team into expert trainers in just 2 days.

No more Death By PowerPoint or expensive external training fees

• Delivered onsite at your offices
• Includes practitioner recognition, access to a Slack Community and post-workshop resources

• 1 hour follow up group call to share insights and cover Q&A

"If training or learning something yourself, attend this course to learn effective ways of embedding the knowledge you need to learn. If giving a talk or lecture, I will stand by my hyperbole of saying these learning experiences will be at least 10 X more effective and engaging than that of traditional “Draining from the Front of the room”. - that is, the traditional training approach of talking at people rather than people actively learning."

-Rashee Harvey

I proved myself right: learning alongside others in a room really brings out the best in me. Of course, that only works when it’s guided by someone truly special — and Rachelle is exactly that.

She’s a competent, kind, and knowledgeable facilitator who genuinely loves what she does, loves people, and lives every day to the fullest.

Rachelle brings a calm, cool presence and knows how to strike the perfect balance — fun and engaging when it’s needed, yet always focused and purposeful. Not once did it feel like a “typical” training session.

I didn’t come from a training background, so this material really shifted what I do and how I do it — it’s completely transformed the way I design and facilitate workshops now.

Evangelo Panagi

"Thank you Rachelle for your time, I appreciated the opportunity to come back and sanity check my assumptions and ideas as I take the learnings from the course into practice. Thank you for sharing 4C’s Map examples - this is exactly what I needed to help create my workshop 4C map. "

-Denis,

Join a public TBR workshop.

Perfect for individuals looking to deepen their facilitation skills, learn brain-based training techniques, or refresh how they design learning experiences.
These sessions bring together a diverse mix of practitioners from across industries, with a focus on practice, feedback, and real-time application.

• Ideal for coaches, facilitators, trainers and Agile professionals
• 2 full days (in-person) in London
• Includes practitioner recognition, access to a Slack Community and post-workshop resources

• 1 hour follow up group call to share insights and cover Q&A

£950 +VAT

Next date: 27 & 28 November 2025

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Rachelle Williams

rachelle@furnellproject.co.uk

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